Guillermo Rauch is a successful entrepreneur and CEO of Vercel (previously known as ▲ZEIT), a popular platform for serverless deployment, collaboration, and real-time updates for developers. Before joining Vercel in 2018, Rauch co-founded Socket.io, a real-time bidirectional communication protocol that powers many popular websites and apps. He is also the creator of popular open-source projects like Next.js, a React-based framework for building server-rendered applications, and Mongoose, an ORM library for MongoDB.

Rauch has an impressive background in computer science, with a strong focus on full-stack JavaScript development, cloud computing, and distributed systems. He is a frequent speaker on tech conferences and has authored several books on JavaScript and Node.js. His passion for building developer tools and empowering web developers to create the next big thing makes him a well-known figure in the web development community.